background: a substantial part of the public’s natural radiation dose is due to the inhalation of radon gas. most of the exposure occurs indoors where the airborne concentration of radon and its decay products is usually higher than outdoors. materials and methods: radon activity concentration has been measured twice in 50 classrooms in 5 levels (10 each) during summer and winter using solid-st...

GENE D. LESAGE,1 SHANNON S. GLASER,2 LUCA MARUCCI,3 ANTONIO BENEDETTI,3 JO LYNNE PHINIZY,2 REBECCA RODGERS,4 ALESSANDRA CALIGIURI,1 EMANUELA PAPA,1 ZIGA TRETJAK,1 ANNE-MARIE JEZEQUEL,5 LEIGH A. HOLCOMB,6 AND GIANFRANCO ALPINI1,4,7 1Department of Internal Medicine, 2Division of Research and Education and 4Medical Physiology and 6Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Scott & White Hosp...

Takala, Teemu O., Pirjo Nuutila, Juhani Knuuti, Matti Luotolahti, and Hannele Yki-Järvinen. Insulin action on heart and skeletal muscle glucose uptake in weight lifters and endurance athletes. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Endocrinol. Metab. 39): E706–E711, 1999.—There are no studies comparing myocardial metabolism between enduranceand resistance-trained athletes. We used 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-Dglucose ...

Labow, Brian I., Wiley W. Souba, and Steve F. Abcouwer. Glutamine synthetase expression in muscle is regulated by transcriptional and posttranscriptional mechanisms. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Endocrinol. Metab. 39): E1136–E1145, 1999.— Skeletal muscle exports glutamine (Gln) and increases the expression of the enzyme glutamine synthetase (GS) in response to physiological stress. Acute stress or dire...

UTA ECKHARDT,1 ALICE SCHROEDER,1 BRUNO STIEGER,1 MATHIAS HÖCHLI,2 LUKAS LANDMANN,3 RONALD TYNES,4 PETER J. MEIER,1 AND BRUNO HAGENBUCH1 1Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, CH-8091 Zurich; 2Central Laboratory for Electron Microscopy, University of Zurich, CH-8028 Zurich; 3Department of Anatomy, University of Basel, CH-4000 Basel; and 4D...

Koyama, Kaori, Iwao Sasaki, Hiroo Naito, Yuji Funayama, Kouhei Fukushima, Michiaki Unno, Seiki Matsuno, Hisayoshi Hayashi, and Yuichi Suzuki. Induction of epithelial Na1 channel in rat ileum after proctocolectomy. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 39): G975– G984, 1999.—In patients with colectomy, epithelial transport function in the remnant small intestine can be regulated in r...

TSUKASA NOZU,1 VICENTE MARTINEZ,1 JEAN RIVIER,2 AND YVETTE TACHÉ1 1CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center, West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Digestive Disease Division, Department of Medicine and Brain Research Institute, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90073; and 2Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, Salk Institute for Biological S...